Pumpkin Power Cookies (Paleo, Gluten Free, Vegan)

These flourless Pumpkin Power Cookies are jam packed with nutrition! Makes a great grab and go healthy snack. Paleo, Gluten Free and Vegan.

Pumpkin Power Cookies (Paleo, Gluten Free, Vegan)

Nuts! Eating a small handful can pack your diet with filling protein, fiber, healthy fats, antioxidants and important vitamins and minerals.

Health Benefits of Nuts

Eating 1 serving of nuts a day – or 1 small handful – has been shown to help brain health, heart health, skin health, men’s reproductive health, reduce risk of cancer, reduce tumor growth and there’s even some evidence that they can even help with weight loss. Yes, that’s right — nuts contain healthy fats that can actually help you lose weight and help boost your metabolism! (source, source)

Now you know why I appropriately named this recipe Pumpkin POWER Cookies. They certainly do contain some powerful health benefits…and will give you a nice boost of energy! This recipe is a great, delicious and easy way to give your health a boost!

Although all nuts are rich in nutrition, one of my favorite nut varieties is the walnut. Not only are walnuts delicious, but the walnut contains the most amount of antioxidants (help protect agains disease) and omega-3’s (fight inflammation) out of all the nuts! Moreover, walnuts have even been shown to have anti-cancerous properties, cutting breast cancer risk in mice by 50 percent, and prostate cancer growth by 30 to 40 percent (source, source).

But let’s face it, nuts on their own sometimes get….well….boring. That’s why I came up with these cookies!

Pumpkin Power Cookies

By eating 1 or 2 of these Pumpkin Power Cookies, I get my daily serving of nuts (and other very important and nutrient dense foods like pumpkin seeds, coconut oil and pumpkin puree!) in a downright delicious, fun and very healthy way!

And these cookies are anything but boring. Just look at these babies! Little bites of walnuts, pecans, pumpkin seeds, a touch of honey, pumpkin, dried cranberries and even a bit of dark chocolate mixed in there….because sometimes a girl just needs some dark chocolate, am I right? 🙂

They have all the tastes of fall, plus they are pretty much the easiest thing ever to make – win-win!

Watch: How to make Flourless Pumpkin Power Cookies

I hope you enjoy these flourless Pumpkin Power Cookies as much as we do and may your health reap the many benefits!

17 comments

I don’t know where you get your ideas, but these look fabulous and I’ll be making them tomorrow. My husband needs to *gain* weight and I’m hoping these might help. Seems the only options we know of to gain weight are unhealthy eating and being lazy, and that’s not us!

These sounded amazingly good until I got to the mint chocolate chips. In my mind (or mouth) I can’t imagine that pumpkin spice and mint goes well together. While I understand I won’t know until I try it I am just a little afraid to try as I think mint would over power the pumpkin goodness and there would be wasting of some good stuff. I LOVE chocolate mint and I LOVE LOVE LOVE pumpkin anything with reg chocolate but this one just doesn’t come together well to me. Can someone that has made them reassure me this is a good thing? LOL

NEVERMIND!!! My old eyes are playing tricks on me, i reread the recipe and went to where there is a picture of the chips to use and it is MINI not MINT! GOT to get my glasses checked and so glad that there is not a mint chocolate chip pumpkin pie spiced cookie out there!

These are so good! My littlest to oldest liked these. Just made them for the first time today. Needed to substitute coconut for the dried cranberries. Perfect amount of sweetness and I know I am giving my family something GOOD for their palate and body. Will make a double batch next time and share the recipe with friends!

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